Is breathing the way to happiness, health and strength?

I do breathing exercises when stressed. I guess you can say I breathe properly when doing exercises or swimming laps.

No, but they are good for health

We call it Pranayam and I do spend time on it but not on a regular basis.

Long time ago I thought I was breathing correctly till I started going to yoga classes. Breathing helps relieve stress, clears our mind and our body. It helps us calm down. My Apple Watch reminds me when I should take a break and breath for a minute or two.

Yes, I do breathing exercises, when I feel tired and I need to relax.

I've heard there are breathing techniques to help you get more oxygen into your lungs. I don't practice those techniques.

I read what Dr A. Vogel wrote about deep breathing.. have to see if I find this in his book.. If we are stressed, we may forget to breath deep enough..??

I must be breathing right I am never sick.

I don't do any breathing exercises but I think it is a good idea.

There are lots of New Age Therapies, based around us using certain breathing techniques. Years and years ago, I did one called, "rebirthing". This is a continuous cyclic breathing technique of breathing in deeply, strongly, then breathing out slowly, in a relaxed way. You connect the out-breath to the in-breath seamlessly, so that there is no pausing between breaths. This type of breathing stimulates a sort of hyperventilation, that allows you to release emotions, and held onto trauma, especially that experienced around your birth, hence the name. In general terms though, I think that our lungs, like all of our body, work best when working best. This means that deep breathing, using the fuller breath, brings the lungs into full use, and deep breathing then is beneficial for us, at times, especially when we do not much exercise, so we do not much breathe deeply naturally anymore. Photo Credit: The photo used here was freely sourced from the free media site: pixabay.com Some people will tell us that our quality of life depends a lot on our breath, and our breathing.

Breathing exercises are supposed to prevent and even cure diseases. I have not been into this yet. - siva

This would be a good idea!! Can't seem to get enough air!! Going to look this up!! And see about about going to a place where I can breather pure fresh oxygen!!!

Interesting theory. I always feel better physically when I do yoga which involves deep breathing. I also do breath counting to relieve stress so I believe there may be something to this in improving one's health.

Walking counts?

Sometimes I feel I do not breath normally

i know breathing keeps me alive. Yeah all this yoga stuff is about breathing so I guess this is the happening thing right now.

There is no way I would be anywhere cold wearing shorts! However, I do think that deeper breathing and your activity can improve health.

Several years ago I became interested in this subject of breathing, I practiced a little yoga and meditation and I learned to breathe by raising and lowering the diaphragm, that is, the abdominal breathing that is the best way to breathe because the lungs are completely filled. Young children breathe in this way, that is, with the abdomen. As we grow, we lose this capacity and breathe little air and only take air with the upper part of the lungs, which brings negative consequences to our health.

I'm not sure if is breathing the way to happiness, health and strength. But I know that with deep breathing relieves the headache. I tried ... it works